Tailoring the magnetic and optical characteristics of nanocrystalline BiFeO 3 by Ce doping

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1985-1992

  Bhushan, Bhavya ^a,f   Wang, Zhenxing ^b   Van Tol, Johan ^b   S Dalal, Naresh ^b   Basumallick, Amitava ^c   Vasanthacharya, Nagasampagi Y ^d   Kumar, Sanjay ^e   Das, Dipankar ^a  

^a UGC DAE CONSORTIUM FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JHARKHAND   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE SHIFT; CE CONCENTRATION; CE-DOPING; DOPANT LEVELS; FERROELECTRIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; FOURIER; FTIR; HIGH FREQUENCY EPR; MOSSBAUER; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SECOND DERIVATIVES; SOL-GEL ROUTES; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTRA;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84862815669     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05132.x     Document Type: Article

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